Health Sciences Image Resources: Course Packs

Image Usage Information

This page discusses usage of images in print and electronic course packs, some of which are allowed for free via subscriptions negotiated by the MSU Libraries. For information on using images in course lectures and presentations see the Lectures page.

No Additional Cost for MSU Users

The MSU Libraries subscription to the resources below (LWW Health Libraries, Lippincott Books, Thieme, VisualDx) includes payment for rights to include these images in MSU print and electronic course packs for no extra cost. Please provide citation information when possible.

Clinical Key Ebooks

This PDF lists all of the ClinicalKey titles that can be used in print and electronic course packs for no additional cost or permissions. It does not include The Netter Collection of Medical Illustrations, Gray's Anatomy, or Grant's Atlas of Anatomy.

Contains over 900 electronic textbooks, including Robbins & Cotran, Nelson's Pediatrics, and the Harriet Lane Handbook, and millions of images.

To find images:

Searches can be limited to images by selecting Multimedia in the orange drop down menu to the left of the search bar that defaults to All. Or search for a keyword and limit the source type to Images.

To download images:

To download images you must sign up for and/or log in to your ClinicalKey account. Use your @msu.edu email as your username and sign up for it while accessing ClinicalKey through the MSU Library link above. ClinicalKey will save all the images to your account and you can go to the "presentations" folder in your account to download a powerpoint of images to your personal desktop.

1. For a single image:

In a book: Click the image you would like to download and either select the "save" or "add to presentation" icon.

From the search results page: Once selected click the "add to presentation" icons at the top right of the results page to download the image to your ClinicalKey account's "presentation" folder.

2. For multiple images:

To select multiple images from the image results page make sure the "Subscribed Content" box is checked. Then select multiple images by clicking on the box in their upper right hand corner. This box will change from transparent to orange when an image is selected.

Once selected click the "add to presentation" icons at the top right of the results page to download the images to your ClinicalKey account's "presentation" folder.

LWW Health Libraries

To find images you may:
1. Search for a keyword in the main search box. On the results pages scroll down and select "image" as the content type - found under Media in the left-side menu. You can narrow further by subject or specific title in the same menu.

2. Search within a specific text by choosing the texts button on the homepage followed by narrowing it to subject and selecting an individual book and then choosing images in the left-side menu under the link to the textbook's table of contents. From there you can choose a chapter to view all the images within it.

To download and save images you have two options:
1) Click View Original and the image will open in a new browser tab/page, right click, and select Save Image As or Save Picture As. The figure caption and citation information do not appear in saved images, so make sure to note where an image came from when downloading them to your computer.

2) Click Slide (.ppt), the image will open as a PowerPoint slide with all of the image attributes including the title of the chapter; the name of the textbook, its edition and publication date; and a copyright statement.

To find images you may:
1) Click the Multimedia tab in the top horizontal menu bar (beside the Books tab). Search for a term in the search box located under Quick Search or by browsing by subject.
2) Click the Books tab and search by selecting either Quick Search, Title, or Subject. Once you have found a relevant text try searching within the book and selecting the figure after pressing the + sign beside the chapter title.

To download and save images:
1) Click View Figure to download the image to your desktop, noting the figure number, book chapter and title information.

McGraw-Hill Ebooks

Images from McGraw-Hill ebooks can be used in course packs with no additional permissions needed. Print-only texts from this publisher are not included and must still go through a external permissions process.

In any of the Access databases you can search for images by clicking on the Multimedia tab in the horizontal menu bar and selecting Images. You can also do a keyword search in the main search bar and limit to images by selecting the Images filter in the search results page near the bottom of the left hand menu column.

Thieme Teaching Assisstant

Please note - Content, figure titles, or legends may be removed from images, but the copyright notices must remain intact. Original content may be added to an image, but the addition of third-party copyrighted material is not allowed. Content added to the images becomes the property of Thieme.

Thieme Teaching Assistant: Anatomy

The anatomy collection features all images from the Gilroy, et al. Atlas of Anatomy, as well as additional illustrations and clinical images from Head and Neck Anatomy for Dental Medicine.

Visual DX

Visual Dx is a web-based clinical decision support system designed to aid in the identification of dermatologic, infectious, genetic, metabolic, nutritional and occupational diseases, benign and malignant growths, drug-induce conditions, and other injuries. Covers more than 1,300 pediatric and adult conditions represented by nearly 30,000 images.

Note: Images can be added to course materials by opening an image in full-page view, press print screen (PrtScr) on your keyboard, and paste the screen capture into your document. The Logical Images copyright watermark must be visible and intact.

Please use the following citation on all images: Image source: Visual Dx (www.visualdx.com).